Posts in: Search engines
- An all Flash / SWF search engine roundup
- SWFs to become fully searchable SWF searchability FAQ Improved Flash indexing (Google’s announcement) Adobe, Google and Yahoo Join Forces To Make Flash More Searchable [1 Jul 2008]
- Is Google evil?
- It owns online search. It almost owns online contextual advertising. It offers ass-kickingly good web-based e-mail and other online applications. And now, Google wants to organize your life. From the Financial Times article: Google’s ambition to maximise the personal information it holds on users is so great that the search engine envisages a day when it can [...] [23 May 2007]
- One-link Wednesday: TagFetch.com
- TagFetch: A tag search engine that finds and gathers tagged content. Sign up, and you can save your searches. TagFetch pulls photos, video and blog posts from a range of sources, including Flickr, YouTube, Newsvine, and Technorati. I haven’t used it extensively (in fact, I did exactly one search), but it seems like it might [...] [14 Jun 2006]
- A9.com
- A while back, I mentioned Amazon’s new search engine, A9.com. It’s still in beta, but this just might become my new favorite engine. A9 is powered by Google, which is pretty darn good as far as search engines go. But A9 adds a few enhancements. For example: Search history: Your personalized search homepage features links to recent [...] [29 May 2004]
- The
titleattribute and search result links - While searching the SURL site, I noticed that many of the page titles were cut off. I won’t go in to what makes a good page title, or why page titles are important. But perhaps Google should add the title attribute — featuring the complete page title — to each link. When a user moused-over, the [...] [27 May 2004]
- Some A9.com coolness…
- You can do a quick a9.com search by doing the following: a9.com/search_term_here. [14 Apr 2004]
- Amazon launches search
- Via News.com: Amazon’s A9.com search service went live today (in Beta). And it’s tied to your Amazon account, which allows you to save, review and manage your searches. I’ll leave it to you to consider the privacy concerns. When you search, not only do you get web results, but you also get book results — which, [...] [14 Apr 2004]
- Google Tips from David Pogue
- New York Times’ technology columnist David Pogue interviewed some Google-ians about their favorite Google tricks. (NY Times. Registration required, or use one of these logins). [25 Mar 2004]
